Very poor Aero performance - V6215CA

Hello all, fisrt post here.
Anyways, I picked up a V6215CA for a good price. I needed a school laptop and I figured I may as well get the best integrated (geforce go 6150). When I was at Future Shop/Best Buy and testing the laptops out, even the laptops with the GMA950's were running Aero pretty well. However I noticed when I got this thing home and cleanly installed that the Aero performance was incredibly poor - windows lag when dragging them and Flip-3D looks like its going at about 10fps and any movies that are playing while doing it stop playing and lock up.
Any thoughts/ideas? I'm pretty sure the hardware (Turion 64x2, 1gb ddr2, gf go 6150, 120GB HD) is fine, especially compared to the laptops I've seen run Vista's Aero just fine.

 

well have u tried updating the graphics driver? how much RAM have u given the 6150? have u tried running one of those 3dmark benchmarks to see if your graphics are running on par.

 

A good place for drivers for nvidia notebook GPUs is:

http://laptopvideo2go.com/

 

It really sounds like something is wrong with the drivers, which is common for both nVidia and ATI right now...drivers are not 100% up to par.

It is possible that you, for some reason, only have the standard Microsoft VGA drivers...which are pretty crappy. Make sure your nVidia drivers are installed, and then update them if you can. Duy's link is probably the best place to look for the newest Vista drivers.

Also, you have an integrated card...so you are loosing a little bit of that 1GB of RAM to the GPU. If you have a LOT of applications running, it is possible that Aero is getting slowed down because you are using most of your ram.

 

Try updating all your drivers and tweaking the settings.

 

Thanks guys,
I have the latest official drivers from nvidia, the Nforce 430 drivers with integrated graphics. That ends up installing a pretty dated version of the graphics driver though, 90 something.
BUT if I force a newer version to install (like 154.18 or anything above the 90 series) the computer hangs for about 15 seconds when I log in at a black screen or anytime a 3d app is opened.

And the only program I have running is nod32 (antivirus) and a few windows to test flip 3d with.

I only have 1GB of ram and it doesn't matter if I allocate 64mb or 128mb to the geforce, it performs the same.

I'll check out that site though and give some drivers a try. Although last time I played with these drivers, I ended up having to format because WMP started having issues with DRM and copy protection on DVDs and not communicating with the video driver properly.
I'm obviously not expecting miracles out of the 6150 but if it can play call of duty / doom 3 at decent settings then I see no reason why it should have any trouble with Aero, especially when I've seen worse laptops do better.

 

Geforce 6150 should be pretty decent for integrated. I suggest trying some other drivers besides latest official. Like maybe tweak r us's stable release for vista 32-bit.